Katrina Preps. Dropping the Ball.
There continue to be just SO many holes in the Administration arguments over how Katrina was handled. Kudos to the Senate for going after the truth today.
Pre-Katrina Warnings Not Heeded (AP via Yahoo! News)
Senators lambasted the Bush administration on Tuesday for failing to heed devastating predictions from a hurricane preparedness test that began a year before Hurricane Katrina slammed into [...]
Democratic Shift
Newest poll numbers. Tracking a shift in associations.
Gallup Poll Shows Shift Towards Democrats
Republicans love to claim that the corruption and incompetence seen under their rule doesn’t have political significance, but a Gallup Poll is showing they are wrong as more are identifying themselves as Democrats: An analysis of Gallup Poll data from 2005 shows that the Democratic Party made gains in party identification among the American public. The [...]
Insight: Impeachment
“Insight” is about as conservative a magazine as you can find. But, that’s where the “I-word” is popping up today.
White House Preparing For Impeachment
The conservative magazine Insight gives us a story that makes the left drool: The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress. “A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment,” an administration source said. Sources said a prelude to the impeachment process could begin with hearings [...]
Checking Facts
Bloggers are hard at work today, checking facts and figures from the latest Administration speeches. It’s a frustrating job, but quite productive. Start reading.
Just to try and keep a few lies documented in one place, here are this evening’s offerings, inspired by today’s Newsday report cited in the first item below:
Katrina:
“I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.”
– President Bush, September 1, 2005
WASHINGTON– The Homeland Security Department was warned a day before Hurricane Katrina hit that the storm’s surge could breach levees and leave New Orleans flooded for weeks or months, documents released Monday show.
– Newsday, January 23, 2006
The list goes on. Then, consider these two collections of quips, quotes and reality.
A little fact checking
Trying to fact check every speech Bush delivers is too daunting a task for a humble blogger — a typical event includes far too much mendacity to bother. But since yesterday’s speech was supposed to be the president’s latest comprehensive defense of his warrantless-search program, it’s probably worth taking a moment to document the more [...]
Leaving out a few details about military benefits
The president said something yesterday about the military with which I agree wholeheartedly. “It is really important for the United States of America to have an all-volunteer Army. The best way to keep people volunteering in the Army is to make sure they got good pay, good training, good equipment and good housing for their loved [...]
